Managerial Versus Production Wages: Offshoring, Country Size and Endowments

Konferenzbeitrag

We look at managerial and production wages in countries that differ in size and relative endowments. Production labor is assumed to be a variable input composed of tradable tasks, while managerial labor is a fixed, non-tradable input. Task performance is subject to increasing returns to scale on the country level, as in Grossman & Rossi-Hansberg (2009). We first analyze country size and relative endowment effects on wages, ruling out task trade altogether, followed by numerical simulations highlighting the degree of freeness of task trade as an important further determinant of relative wages, both within and across countries.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Globalization and Technical Change ; No. B14-V2

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation ; Trade and Labor Market Interactions ; Multinational Firms; International Business
• Subject: Offshoring ; Skill Premium ; Scale Effect

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Benz, Sebastian ; Kohler, Wilhelm K.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Verein für Socialpolitik
• (where): Frankfurt a. M.
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/37395
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